Ujanja Ni Uhai (Hustling Is Life)

Huawei U8150 merged to mainline CyanogenMod

It’s been exactly one month since I set out to build CyanogenMod 7 for the Huawei U8150. In that time I’ve learned a lot about compilers, git, CyanogenMod, and Android in general. Last night support for the U8150 was merged into the official CyanogenMod git repositories.

Once the port is stable there will be “official” support for the device. Right now it’s only me and tilal6991 working on it, but there have been a few other developers chipping in from time to time since mid 2011 (namely koush and marcnvidic). CyanogenMod really is by the people, for the people (unofficial slogan, coined just now by me).

Yeah, it’s great news. The CM guys are really cool, and are actually stoked to get more devices officially supported. I have been pretty busy lately, but yeah, once we iron out some more bugs we’ll talk to the CM guys more to figure out what the next step is. Then we should be able to get nightly builds from their build bot 🙂

ICS… well, it might run… but hahahahaha. Don’t expect too much. We have a shitty 2009 processor, no GPU, and 256 megs of RAM. Let’s wait and see.